Quotes About Distinctions

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

The modern critic in his concerted effort to undermine the structure of all religious, moral, and cultural distinctions ultimately brings these distinctions crashing down on his own head. He sets himself up as the prophet of new insights and new ideas, as the sole possessor of an infallible system of analysis - and finds himself condemned to recapitulate all the age-old distinctions of difference: Tiresias redivivus!

Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.

White magic or black, it doesn't make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions

you're a carnivore, you're a carnivore, so what's the merit of fine distinctions?

Sometimes the simplest and most obvious distinctions give rise to the profoundest intellectual difficulties, and things most commonplace in our daily experience drive home to us the depths of our ignorance

That academic work had a static dimension to it, like we were studying from a distance, analyzing and scrutinizing, making distinctions about distinctions. In that world I got points for precision, for my ability to parse and exegete and summarize. I was rewarded for how well I could pin the butterfly.

In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

Turing test is best replaced by the Winograd Schema, which tests one's ability to make simple but important semantic distinctions based on the application of wide general knowledge to a problem created by a definite pronoun. "The large ball crashed through the table because it was made of aerogel.

The trouble with two partners having separate sets of mortal enemies is that said enemies don't always make distinctions.

as long as conscious desire is at work, it will permit distinctions to exist. But if one can suppress it, these distinctions dissolve and one can be as content with a skull as with anything else.

He realized that as long as conscious desire is at work, it will permit distinctions to exist. But if one can suppress it, these distinctions dissolve and one can be as content with a skull as with anything else.

Since the biological distinctions between different groups of Homo sapiens are, in fact, negligible, biology can't explain the intricacies of Indian society or American racial dynamics. We can only understand those phenomena by studying the events, circumstances, and power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.

The commercial, anthropological, and sociological branding process that professionals engage in now creates visceral distinctions to evoke immediate responses in people.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'

The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.